The problem of the Matanza Riachuelo is one of the socio-environmental conflict more complex and significant in Argentina. The environmental crisis is not simply Creek to the pollution of the watercourse, but the consequences of pollution have a direct impact on more than three million people living in its vicinity, most of which are excluded from access to basic water services, sewage and health care.
In a landmark ruling, the July 8, 2008, the Supreme Court ordered the National to the Federal Government and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires Province to carry out the environmental rearrangement of the Basin through a program of mandatory, which has meant a turning point in relation to the implementation of policies and plans aimed at reversing this shameful situation.
Nevertheless, the actions of the Slaughter Creek Watershed Authority (ACUMAR) representing condemned government has been far from expectations placed upon it. Ongoing work ACUMAR have been characterized by a marked lack of continuity and efficiency in the management, so that after a year and a half of court ruling has failed to establish compliance with the commitments assumed.
also demonstrated severe limitations in building the consensus needed to implement policies watershed level. In this regard, it has not become a body that will bring together the efforts of the various jurisdictions involved, and crippled the participation mechanisms designed to involve citizens in the sanitation plan being conducted.
On February 1 this year, after the Federal Court of Quilmes observed the absence of proper planning to guide actions toward compliance with the ruling and intimate accordingly ACUMAR submitted a Comprehensive Plan Environmental sanitation will be the next installment of this Newsletter.
This time spread the report made under the Chartered body for the actions developed by the Basin Authority for over 17 months since the Supreme Court ruling. We believe that it will be useful to evaluate the new plan submitted, while serving as a warning not to lose sight of the need for the proposed projects are translated into concrete actions towards reversing the decline socio-environmental basin without repeating mistakes past where bombastic declarations have not been sustained over time and were forgotten without changing at all the critical situation of the Matanza Riachuelo Riachuelo.Matanza.